Who can remember being told to be careful with books? What about not bending the book? Don’t be rough, draw on, or throw the book?

This book throws all those rules out the window!

Books are made to be savoured, enjoyed, and taken places.

Books are to be tasted, smelt, touched (with more than just your fingers), and heard as you flip the pages!

Wrap them, dress them, read them upside down. Hug them, wear them and turn them into presents!

Books are not just to be looked at, read and slid back on a shelf. They are to be enjoyed, shared and imagined.

This new book in the Wreck this series, banishes all the rules we’ve every heard about books. It even has a page to bend (shock – horror!). The text encourages the reader to shake, smell, touch, tap, knock the book. The black capitalised text is handwritten by the author and is clear against predominantly white backgrounds.

The bright illustrations are a fun jumble of collage, drawings, paintings and signs. A picture book like no other, taking Herve Tullet’s Press here interactive concept even further. Brilliant, but I still don’t think I could bend the pages….. 🙂 

Author – Keri Smith

Designers – Keri Smith & Jason Henry

Age – 5+

(Imagination, Collage, Creativity, Fun, Humour, Different, Change, Going against the norm, Breaking rules)